Depending how much art I can produce, there are about 3-5 comics left in Chapter 5 (this chapter.) I have a decent amount of dialogue to get through, and I don’t like overcrowding panels with word bubbles. Above example is about as much as I can stand in a comic.

The thing about really really old people is that when you reach a certain point… you just don’t give a shit anymore. Tired Guy probably couldn’t survive a beating from these young people and even if he could, I doubt that any of them could put any kind of fear in him. He’d die with a scowl on his face and his pride intact.
Then again, he *is* some kind of super villain. I wonder what his power is. His aliases are The Breathtaker and Mr. Night. Is there a clue in those names? He also wore a gas mask in his Mr. Night persona. Maybe that’s involved somehow.
He’s the leader of this group and they all seem to follow his orders without question. Why is that? Does he have some kind of hold over them or a common goal that they all want to see realized? So many questions. The leader isn’t always the most dangerous of a super powered group, but I think Tired Guy is more powerful than he appears to be. When the time comes for Tarra or someone else to confront him, he might surprise us all.

All these comments… Major understatement… Hmm? We are all forgetting the ingredients we have on hand. One Ellie, who wont take shit, a bunch of protective sisters, a mess of lonely guys who finally have had a taste of what they are looking for, and a literal ARMY of sexy assassins Yeah Wrinkles may think his group is hot shit and can do what they want, but if he isn’t careful, his oxygen tank is going to be shoved up his rear access port.

Let’s be honest here, is this altogether that surprising? He tried to come up with some contrivance to get Quinn and company expelled from the complex just to get into the apartment. Also, from a standard head of a company dealing with temporary workers standpoint, he is pretty much baseline.

So, my thought on the whole “he’s going to drop this bomb on Ellie while surrounded by angry sisters/sext assassins” is that most sisters are still annoyed with Ellie (as the meters earlier showed), and will sit back and let a lesson happen…except for Juniper, the sole reason for those 300+ renewals. IF (and it’s a big if) things go pear-shaped and retaliation comes (retaliation being the iffy part of that big if), I think it’ll be from Juni, and will result in the site effectively shutting down.

Worse than that; these memberships are running $60 each, based on the numbers from Terms and Conditions Part 26. Ellie’s idea brought in just over $26,000 tonight (300 reups +135 new members * $60 per = $26,100) and for this, they will fire her. eSymmetry now looks dumber than ever before and Ellie’s got a nice new resume capper.

There’s renting out the hotel, whatever catering they may have done, whatever was done for decorations (I know they copy/pasted/overwrote/stole wherever they could, but still not free), 11-13 employees and however many apartments they rented out (Dick said 9, as I recall, but might’ve been lying, but I think we’ve seen at least three or four). Finally, they’re an evil organization that used to be in the business of destruction on a scale that’s globally noteworthy.

How is $26k an, “ok, we were short on funds, but finally that’s sorted out” sort of number?

It’s the “if we find ourselves in financial straights again” part that makes it sound like they were worse off financially than makes sense to me.

@Steve – I don’t think Tired Guy would’ve been that averse to welshing on debts or commitments, so I don’t know how much the “owed refunds” were an issue past convenience of not having to make himself scarce from those debts.

agreed……Elle kinda made Junipers…well….LIFE when she said she was proud of her……if anything I think not only her but anyone who she went out with that found their soulmate (like balloon boy a couple strips back) are gonna have even more to say about her getting the axe

I could see any of the present sisters go either way as far as retaliation. While Juniper appreciates what Ellie said, this thing did line up a bunch of prospects for her to take advantage of for quite some time if needed and she’s looking for nicer temporary places to stay than dumpsters. Anise might do a lot of damage going after Durkin and/or think she’s going to impress him. Tarra might want to re-assert dominance and show everyone she’s the most powerful being in the room. Ginger’s Mom2 tendencies could go protective instead of let her learn a lesson, also her deadly sin mapping is wrath, so if one or two of the others are determined to cause mayhem, she might be angry enough to want to join in since the lesson might not be learned anyway.

I don’t think that Ellie is going to be doing any mangling. They’re going to bring her to one of the back areas, tell her she’s fired and the bald guys going to grab her by the shoulders and put her outside a back door. She’ll probably run into Zeke, who may be running from Cinnamon’s advances, goes into his chainsaw mode, but Ellie’s too depressed to notice and Zeke quits, turns to Jesus, turns himself in and creates a revival and rehabilitation in the Florida penal system.

Man, this is not going to go the way he expects. Ellie won’t like getting fired from what she was envisioning as a regular gig, but better to be fired and hopefully get good references than to quit again and definitely get no good references. I hope that we will see the savvy side of Ellie again and have the confrontation end to Ellie’s benefit.

I’m not sure how to feel about this page. On the one hand I like that we finally got confirmation that they’re operating the website to at least some extent with the intention of making money. On the other it annoys me how flippant Tired Guy is about running it.

Ellie leaving this job was already revealed in the FAQ and she was advised to get out (by Danny but still) so I’m kind of neutral on that.

I suppose this does make it less likely we’ll get a canon image of Ellie with a jetpack. So I have to dislike it for that.

Still who is to say that Ellie can’t make her own dating website and out do Tired Guy? Yes, Ellie would need the money but I think she can manage it if Tarragon gives her a loan. Plus Tarragon does have contacts through her assassinations and I guarantee you she has networked with other people in different fields other than “Wetwork”, so Ellie putting together her dating service is possible. After she makes back the money and has surplus Ellie can always reimburse Tarragon!

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It seems almost unanimous in the comments that everyone thinks Tired Guy is going to get beaten up and publicly shamed somehow. Which is all the more reason that’s probably not going to happen. At least not in the immediate future. He’s a super villain, after all, and the closest thing the comic currently has to a primary antagonist. It just so happens that he appears to be a frail cantankerous old man. Which could easily be a sham, but even if it’s the physical reality he might have powers that make up for it. Powers yet unrevealed.
The secret agenda of his group seems to be at the heart of where the plot is going, so I don’t think he’s going to just get bumped off for the sake of a pathetic ‘feel good’ gag where the bad person gets comeuppance. Sarcastic yay. How delightful. At least it seems like a lot of build up would be wasted otherwise. Anything is possible. From the perspective of Ellie, her sisters, and the public at large… Tired Guy is just a mean old man. They won’t harm him as long as he remains just that. Who beats up the elderly? Especially the infirm elderly? That’d be fucked up. I can’t believe so many people think that’s so likely to happen. He is shielded by decency. If the protagonists were willing to assault old people just because that old person ‘was rude’ I’d be shocked.

I agree. His comeuppance will come at a later time, and I suspect it will be significantly less violent than we all want it to be.

I’m thinking that Ellie is much more shrewd these days.

I made a comment about her and Blind Guy starting a competing website for female assassins…but in all honesty I could see her going to Caleb about making a competing site instead. He’s the one with business sense, he has an established base (including females), and it would be easy to get Danny to do something to redirect users…etc.

Oh god finally the dating site arc is going to end! Yes, she made it work, but I call a huge Deus Ex Machina on that one and tired guy seems to agree. Though Deus Ex Machina is not necessarily a bad thing, because sometimes an artist just wants to have fun and goof off, like in By The Book. My humor is just more along the lines of what happened at the beginning when Ellie was working at that junk food restaurant.